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He replied: 'Where you try and do something the other person doesn't want to do.'

It is claimed the boy and his friend attacked the girl after
taking her to a park not far from their homes in Hayes, West London.

Later that afternoon, she told her mother they pulled down her pants and 'put their thingies in me', jurors have heard.

Both boys were arrested later that afternoon and taken to separate police stations.

The younger of the two, Child A, was interviewed in the presence
of a solicitor and an 'appropriate adult' from the Youth Offending
Services.

He told police he had been playing football with his friend
before going to 'knock' for a friend in a tower block. The boy said
they saw the eight-year-old girl inside the block and she asked him to
expose himself.

'She didn't touch it or anything,' he added.

The boy said he pulled his trousers and pants down for about five seconds in the stairwell of a block of flats.

He said he went with her to a field where she repeated the request, and he again exposed himself.

He added: 'She asked me to show her it again and I did.'

The boy said she asked his friend to do the same and then disappeared with his friend for 30 seconds.

'I don't know if they did it because I wasn't there,' he added.

He said she then asked his friend to expose himself and to assault her.

The girl then allegedly said: 'Let's do it.'

The ten-year-old said his friend told him: 'Go away if you don't want to look.'

He went off and his friend came round the corner 30 seconds later, the court heard.

The boy told police he liked maths, English and drawing at school.

The boys, who are now both 11, are believed to be among the youngest charged with rape in Britain.

Children under the age of ten cannot face criminal proceedings as they are not held to be responsible for their actions.

They have been allowed to sit in the well of the court next to their lawyers for the trial.

Wigs have been removed and the judge is sitting in the clerk's seat rather than the higher judge's chair.

The boys each deny two charges of rape and two of attempted rape on October 27, 2009.